I finished Atrocitology and then read The Story of English (surprisingly short for the history of the English language). I haven't started anything new yet, but I think I'll read Tokyo Vice next since it's been on my reading list for over a year.

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I've got two on the go. Midnight's Children, which is great as expected, and Room, which I'm not really loving despite all the hype around it. Admittedly, I'm not very far into it (about 120 pages or so), but I kind of feel like the subject matter could have been tackled more sensitively than it has been. It this point it almost feels like all the accolades just came on the back of it being topical and capitalising on people's feelings about the cases that influenced it.

I thought Room was terrific. It was so interesting to see the different perspective about the confinement from the child's point of view, and I loved that the mom gave him such a full life while they were trapped.

Then everything changed and I loved that is wasn't just happily ever after and the transition was so hard for both of them. I found it really interesting.

I just finished A Visit from the Goon Squad and I really enjoyed it. Every chapter focuses on the story of a different character with a different story but they all interrelate. Usually I'm not a fan of short stories but these all built up to an end I thought.

I'm around page 150 of Time Traveler's Wife and I'm not feeling it. Should I go on? I know this is a popular book and everyone loves it but I feel like an anomaly. Does it get better? I don't even know if it's a question of getting better though because I'm not feeling the emotional depth and don't care about these characters...

I'm around page 150 of Time Traveler's Wife and I'm not feeling it. Should I go on? I know this is a popular book and everyone loves it but I feel like an anomaly. Does it get better? I don't even know if it's a question of getting better though because I'm not feeling the emotional depth and don't care about these characters...

I think you should quit if you don't like it by now! Life is too short and the characters don't grow or change very much

^thanks! It's a long book and I REALLY wanted to like it so I was in the best possible frame of mind to be receptive to it. I love modern stories with speculative fictiony touches (Like, I liked Never Let Me Go and thought the narrative viewpoint was the key to that book although the prose style a bit plain for my taste--but the narrative perspective was its trump card and it was well written and engaging and I was feelin' it somewhat--you know, I get its popularity) but yeah, this Time Traveler's book I'm just not getting into. I think I might read it a bit more tonight and then skip to

I'm around page 150 of Time Traveler's Wife and I'm not feeling it. Should I go on? I know this is a popular book and everyone loves it but I feel like an anomaly. Does it get better? I don't even know if it's a question of getting better though because I'm not feeling the emotional depth and don't care about these characters...

I think you should quit if you don't like it by now! Life is too short and the characters don't grow or change very much

I found the Time Traveler's Wife quite hard going especially in some parts BUT I'm glad I finished it. I would say I did end up enjoying it over all. It is SO much better than the film!

Just finishing Cloud Atlas, so far I both love and am confused by this book. The layout of the chapters and the writing is fantastic but the connections between each story seem to be lacking for me, it just feels like there should be more, although I still haven’t finished it, so who knows. Going to start The Stranger's Child next.

Alfred Bester: The Demolished Man.Really awesome and creative for that sort of plot ("The police uses telepaths - how can I commit a murder?"), and also featuring one of the greatest locations I've ever come across in fiction.

Just finishing Cloud Atlas, so far I both love and am confused by this book. The layout of the chapters and the writing is fantastic but the connections between each story seem to be lacking for me, it just feels like there should be more, although I still haven’t finished it, so who knows. Going to start The Stranger's Child next.

I raved about The Stranger's Child upthread - I loved it. I'm reading The Mitford Girls by Mary S Lovell at the moment, which I'm enjoying because it goes into quite a lot of detail about the lives of their parents, which I was unaware of before.

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Pines - the writing style was pretty good and I really think it could've been a great book but it builds up (with quite a bit of unbelievability), then drops you off at the end with a half assed explanation (again, with quite a bit of unbelievability). It was like "what the hell just happened? Did he really just end the book? What about this? what about that? Am I really supposed to believe that?"

Apocalypse Z - Zombie book, I'm not into zombies and the book is written in a 'diary' format which I'm not a big fan of but it is a pretty good book.

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